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title: He rode at full speed, levelling his lance at Engelier the Gascon, a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode at full speed, levelling his lance at Engelier the Gascon, and smote him through shield and hauberk so stoutly that the spear stood out of his body on the other side. " Who acts: horse, spear. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Ba
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 106

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He rode at full speed, levelling his lance at Engelier the Gascon, and smote him through shield and hauberk so stoutly that the spear stood out of his body on the other side. "

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**Who acts:** horse, spear · **What happens:** ride, levell, smote, stand out · **To what, where:** full speed, lance, Engelier, horse, shield, body

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, spear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:31:106
# text = He rode at full speed, levelling his lance at Engelier the Gascon, and smote him through shield and hauberk so stoutly that the spear stood out of his body on the other side. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	levelling	levell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Engelier	Engelier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Gascon	gascon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	smote	smote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	stoutly	stoutly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | horse |  |  | full speed |  | stoutly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **levell** | gerund | horse *not said here* | horse's lance |  | Engelier |  | the Gascon *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smote** | infinitive | horse *not said here* | horse |  | shield and hauberk |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand out** | past | the spear | horse's body |  | the other side |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme on side=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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